Primary Data

Primary data is...

• Data that you have collected yourself.

• Data collected by a professional researcher.

• Data collected for a purpose.

• Data sourced on the internet.

What is the first thing you should do before starting to collect data?

• Decide what the purpose of the data collection is.

• Write your questions.

• Collect personal information about respondents.

• Contact potential participants.

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What can we use to gather primary data?

• Surveys

• Interviews

• Drawings

• Experiments

• All of the above

What should you do after writing questions for a survey?

• Decide who and what you need data about.

• Decide what personal information you need from respondents.

• Decide what the purpose is of the data collection.

• Test the questionnaire.

Which of the following an open ended question?

• Have you ever tried skating?

• Would you like to try skating?

• What would encourage and motivate you to try skating?

• Would you consider skating if there were free lessons?

Which of the following is a leading question?

• Tell me about any problems you have with your PE teacher?

• Tell me about your relationship with your PE teacher?

• What is your relationship with your PE teacher like?

• How would you describe your relationship with your PE teacher?

Which of the following is NOT a leading question?

• How fast was the skateboarder going when it smashed into the car?

• Should concerned communities ban skateboarders?

• Why do you think it is difficult to learn to skateboard?

• Tell me about a time that you tried to learn a new skill skill such as skating.

The purpose of this question is to understand what would motivate people to start skating.

Which question meets this purpose?

• Have you ever tried to skate?

• Would you like to learn how to skate?

• What would encourage you to start skating?

• Would free skating lessons motivate you to learn to skate?

Which of the following describes a standard open-ended interview.

• Exact wording and order of questions determined in advance.

• Questions and possible responses are determined in advance.

• Interviewer decides the sequence of questions during the interview.

• There are no predetermined questions or answers.

You are interviewing primary school students to find out about their previous experience with skating. Why would you choose to use an interview guide approach?

• It has little flexibility to learn about particular individuals or their circumstances.

• The interviewee's responses must match those provided by the interviewer. This makes it easy to process and analyse.

• The interviewer can decide the sequence of questions during the interview, responding to the conversation.

• There are no predetermined questions or answers so people can talk about what they like.